Local Sports

Arm wrestling will take centre stage in Airdrie this weekend, as the provincial championships and high school challenge will run at Genesis Place, June 5. Weigh-ins will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Good defence and great goaltending often win championships.

Arm wrestling will take centre stage in Airdrie this weekend, as the provincial championships and high school challenge will run at Genesis Place, June 5. Weigh-ins will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

A pair of losses in the last week has left the Junior B Rockyview Silvertips with a 1W-6L record in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League. But head coach Gord Henry believes the last two games will help move the team back into the win column.

A spring snowstorm greeted the best drivers in Canada in the second round of the Canadian Rally Championship (CRC). The Rocky Mountain Rally was held in the hills near Bragg Creek and Porcupine Hills south of Nanton, May 28 and 29.

The senior men’s Beiseker Canadians baseball team is hoping to return to championship form this season.

It was a tournament Chestermere’s Keystone Raiders would like to forget. The Raiders finished seventh at the Sutter Cup Championship, March 12-14.

The Airdrie Thunder was swept from the Heritage Junior B playoffs with a 6-3 loss to the Blackfalds Wranglers, March 14. The loss ended the Thunder’s drive to the final for the first time since 2006.